A sign for the Flushing Freedom Mile in front of Flushing High School, in Flushing, Queens, welcomes visitors in many languages and helps tourists find landmarks in the area, home of the Flushing Remonstrance, a plea for religious tolerance sent in 1657 to Peter Stuyvesant, then Dutch governor of New York.

A sign for the Flushing Freedom Mile in front of Flushing High School, in Flushing, Queens, welcomes visitors in many languages and helps tourists find landmarks in the area, home of the Flushing Remonstrance, a plea for religious tolerance sent in 1657 to Peter Stuyvesant, then Dutch governor of New York. (Kathy Willens, Associated Press)

A sign for the Flushing Freedom Mile in front of Flushing High School, in Flushing, Queens, welcomes visitors in many languages and helps tourists find landmarks in the area, home of the Flushing Remonstrance, a plea for religious tolerance sent in 1657 to Peter Stuyvesant, then Dutch governor of New York.